Daily Links: 12/19/17 – Chicago police blames teen they killed for a bystander they also killed

Quintonio LeGrier (l) & Robert Rialmo
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• First a Chicago cop kills a teenager ^{[both pictured]} suffering a mental breakdown and a bystander. Now the city is suing the teen’s estate, blaming him for the bystander’s death.
  (via @alan_uplc; RT: @radleybalko)

• Following a three-year civil liberties lawsuit, a Canadian court strikes down the country’s solitary confinement regime, albeit with a one-year delay to let Parliament fix issues with the law. It’s unclear where things go from here.

• It’s bad enough that some slimebag restaurant owners illegally pocket their servers’ tips. Now Trump’s Department of Labor is asking: “What if we made it legal?”
  (via @donttrythis)

• Conservative college students get an English instructor fired over her peaceful protests, demonstrate yet again who the real snowflakes are.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Trump hates the NFL for allowing players to protest, but he loves letting taxpayers subsidize new football stadiums.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Finally: We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America.
  (via @radleybalko)

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